Marvel's The Defenders: 8 Things That Must Happen
7. A Strong Villain For Sigourney Weaver
As well as great action, the Marvel-Netflix shows are typified by their strong villains, and The Defenders will hopefully follow suit. In an amazing bit of casting, Sigourney Weaver is playing the bif bad of the series. She is a character wreathed in a lot of mystery at the time of writing, but it seems she is an original creation known as Alexandra Reid.
The pressure is on Weaver and writers Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez to deliver a villain to top all the previous antagonists - which is no easy feat, considering Vincent D'onofrio's Wilson Fisk and David Tennant's Kilgrave are two of the finest supervillains around. Yet Alexandra needs to feel like the biggest threat each of these heroes has ever faced, in order for us to buy that the Defenders need to come together to stop her.
Provided she is given strong motivation, personality and is able to stand on her own and is not beholden to the Hand (more on them later), Weaver could be a great antagonist. However, will there be enough room to flesh Alexandra out in the shortened runtime? Early reactions seem positive towards Weaver's character but we'll have to wait and see how her arc plays out across the whole season before we make any judgements.